The Federal government has announced $100 Million dollars per year of funding for the next seven years into a national Indigenous park ranger program for Australia’s national parks.

The $700 million dollars will fund over 800 jobs in areas such as controlling feral species, bush regeneration, fire management and protection of cultural sites. 

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt, after his convoy was attacked in the capital, Khartoum, close to the prime minister’s office. The AFP News agency has reported that nobody was hurt in the attack.

The perpetrator of the attack is currently unknown, but Sudan’s political climate has remained precarious since last year’s shifts in power.

Approximately 27 people in Iran have died after attempting to prevent the coronavirus. 

Spokeswoman of Ahwaz University of Medical Sciences Ali Ehsanpour says the citizens of Ahwaz were told that drinking alcohol could help fight the infection. 

The victims from Khuzestan and Alborz provinces of Iran have died from alcohol poisoning.

Suspended Moreton Bay mayor Allan Sutherland says he wants to “turn the page” on his period as mayor. 

After denying accusations of misconduct in public office relating to the purchase of land at Burpengary, Sutherland spoke publicly for the first time since the charges were laid in December.

He attributes difficulties with senior staff in his last term and “turbulent times” to his inability to achieve what he set out to do. 

He is confident that he will be cleared of his charges.

More than 170 women including manufacturing professionals, innovators and students attended the 2020 Women in Manufacturing industry breakfast in Brisbane this morning. 

Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning Cameron Dick says the events are a part of their Advanced 10-Year Roadmap and Action Plan. 

Mr Dick says there will be another nine events across the state this year.

There have been a further eight confirmed cases of coronavirus reported nationally this morning. These new cases bring the total number of infections in New South Wales to fifty-five. Currently, more than half of confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide are based in New South Wales. 

The Federal Health Department recommends good hygiene to prevent infections:

Facebook is being taken to court by Australia’s Privacy Regulator over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner stated that Facebook has infringed more than 300,000 Australians’ privacy, and that the social media platform left personal data “exposed to be sold and used for political profiling”.   

The Australian Commissioner’s office said "Facebook failed to take reasonable steps to protect those individuals' personal information from unauthorised disclosure."  

Canada’s Government has revealed plans to put a ban on gay conversion therapy. 

Recently proposed federal legislation would illegalize minors undergoing the practice or people undergoing therapy without consent. 

The widely discredited practice seeks to alter a person’s sexual identity, and Federal Justice Minister David Lametti  has stated that it is “premised on a lie”.

Thousands of women and girls across Mexico have joined a historic national strike. The women protested against the country’s rates of gender-based violence and the government’s failure to respond to the crisis in which more than ten women are murdered every day. 

The strike made up of women across multiple industries, was a disruption to business as usual. Executive coordinator of the National Citizen Observatory on Femicide Maria de la Luz Estrada said, “every day we have more evidence that they are killing us specifically for being women...”